Rail-unloading bar



stopped each time a rail was unloaded. In

Patented Feb. 13, 1923. l

tours r. CHICOINE AND nnznan sAUvn, or-vaunnnuin. ounenc, cane-Dnarnunnoanrne BAR.

:Applieation filed November 30, 1921.1 Seria1 No. 518,909.

.bf Canada, subjects 'ofthe King of Great Britain, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements IIIRHJILUIIlOiLdIIIg Bars;

and we do hereby declare that the following is a full,.clear, and exactdescription thereof; 'Hereto'fore in the distribution of track rails,along a road-bed it. has been the practice to-drop' the rails from aflat car one at a time approximately every thirty-three feet which isthe length of a standard rail,

Owing to the LISHELlIlIZLIlIlBI in which the rails are bottled in? whenloaded upon a flat car (bO-ttling being the term applied to the methodof inverting the alternate layers of rails when the latter are'loadedupon the car), the cumbersome weight of each rail and the lack ofportable tools adapted to the manipulation of the rails such unloadinghas proved laborious, and

hazardous work, memberso-fthe train crew being frequently injured, andthe car was some instances track work of this nature has beenfacilitated 1 by the employment of cranes but these have thedisadvantages that theyv are costly and are too cumbersome for generaluse, and in addition also necessitate the stopping of the train eachtime a rail is unloaded.

The object of the present invention is to overcome these difliculties byproviding a handy portable tool the use of which'owing to its particularadaptability to the work involved will so expedite the work that therails may be unloaded at the required in tervals while the car istravelling at a moderate speed.

A further object is to provide a tool which is designed for. general usein the manipulation of track rails. j v

For full comprehension, however, of. our invention reference must be hadto the accompanyingdrawings in which similar reference charactersindicate the same parts i and, wherein:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of our improved rail manipulatorillustrating the Figure 2 is a; plan viewthereof; and Figure 3 is an endelevation. Describing the illustrated embodiment which weprefer-to-terma rail unloading bar reference characters 2 and 3 indicatelevers constituting a pair of tongs which are supportedattheir lower-endby and adapted-to fulcrum upon a roller -4l'j0urnalledin a supportingbracket 5 ofinverted U-"form, the bracket being securedtothe undersideof the 'lever 2 and straddling the roller.

The lever 2 ispreferablyof o-btuseangular' form in side elevation, itslower portion being disposed substantially horizontally andcomparatively short so that the rail may be raised to the osition AFigure 1) with'little effort on t e part of the operator.Its-upper-portion is tapered and rounded off to provide a handle-6 whilethe lower portion is of rectangular cross section and comparativelyheavy and terminates in a jaw 7. The latter is of greater-width anddepth than the corresponding dimensions of the lever to present largegripping surfaces 8 and 9 forming a sharp angle between them.

;The lever. 3 is relatively light in weight and "fulcrumed adjacent itslower end in a forked bracket 10 secured to the -'top side ofthe' lever2. 1 V

In order to add to its resisting powers it isfiattened as at 12 andpositioned edge up and its jaw 13 which is of hook form overthe lever 2and the supporting bracket 5..

consists of a rivet 16 and a bolt 17 with nut 18; the latter alsosecures the'bracket 'di-fierent positions in which-the rail maynbehandled by it;

10 in place being formed integrally with the latter and extendingdownwardly through openings in the lever and supporting bracket. 1

To prevent the lever 3*from turningon upon a flat car the bolt in theevent of the nut 18 becoming loose the intermediate portion 20 or thebolt is squared and snugly passes through an opening 21 in the lever 2which opening is correspondingly squared.

As hereinbefore stated rails when loaded are usually bottled in to therails of the alternate layers being inverted and positioned with theirbases overlapping the heads of the lower layer as indicated at B inFigure 1. This arrangement renders difficult the selection of theindividual rails when unloading and we have therefore provided theunloading bar with means particularly adapted to this purpose. member525 of hook-form having serrated edges 26 and 27 and secured as at 28 tothe underside of the lever 2 immediately in rear of the fulcrum roller4. I

That this device overcomes the difliculties presented by the bottled inarrangement is clearly illustrated in Figure 1. If, for instance, theoutside rail is in an upright position it is easily lifted by the hookto a position in which it can be acted upon by the tongs. The secondrail being inverted will, of course, topple over on its side (positionC) as soon as the first rail is removed in which case the edge of itsbase is straddled by the member 25 and the bracket 5, the

economize space,

. space 29 therebetween being just suflicient to receive the base, andthe rail is then easily canted to upright position. The member 25 isrounded off as at 30 to give the rail suflicient clearance as it iscanted to upright position.

" What we claim is as follows:

1. A tool of the type described and consisting of a pair of tongs and aroller secured thereto and constituting a fulcrum therefor, one of saidtongs being substantially of T-form, the other tongs being relativelynarrow and hooked towards the first mentioned tong.

2. A tool of the type described consisting of a pair of tongs and aroller secured thereto and constituting a fulcrum therefor, each tongcomprlslng a unitary member having a horlzontally disposed gripplngportion and an upwardly inclined handle portion, the

gripping portion of one tong being of T- form and the gripping tongbeing of uniform width and comparatively narrow and extended beyond thegripping end of the other tong and hooked towards the same.

3. A rail unloading device consisting of a pair of tongs and a rollersecured thereto and constituting a fulcrum therefor said device having apair of spaced members on its underside adapted to receive the baseflange of a rail between for the purpose of canting the latter.

4. A rail unloading bar consisting of a This consists of a plate like vportion of the other esa-nee nalled in said bracket and adapted tosupport the levers and constitute a fulcrum therefor when moving a rail.

' 5. in rail unloading bar consisting of a pair of levers, a pair ofbrackets secured to top and bottom sides of one lever adjacent the lowerend thereof, the upper bracket pivotally supporting the other lever anda roller journalled in the lower bracket and adapted to support thelevers and constitute .a fulcrum therefor; V r V 6. A; rail unloadingbar consisting of a pair of levers, a pair of brackets secured to topand bottom sides of one lever adjacent the lower end thereon-the.upper'bracket pivotally supporting the other lever, common meanssecuring the brackets tothe said lever and a roller journalled in the.lower bracket and adapted to support the levers and constitute a fulcrumtherefor. v

7. A rail unloading bar consisting of a pair of levers, a bracketsecured to one lever and pivotally carrying theother, means detachablysecuring the bracket to said lever and adapted to prevent aturningmovement of the former upon the latter consisting of a bolt formedintegrally with the bracket and having a squared portion extendingsnugly through a squared opening in the lever and a nut screwed uponsaid bolt, and a roller secured to andv adapted to support said leversand constitute a fulcrum therefor.

8. A rail unloading bar consisting of a pair of levers having jawsadapted to cooperate in gripping a rail, a roller secured to said.levers and constituting a fulcrum therefor, and a member of hook formcarried by one of said levers and adapted to act upon the railindependently of the jaws.

9. A rail unloading bar consisting of a lever a bracket secured to thelever adjacent its lower end, a roller journalled i-n saifdlever andadaptedto supportthe same and conv .ing a rail.

10. A rail unloading bar consisting of a lever a bracket secured to thelever adjacent its lower end, a roller journalled in said lever andadapted to support the same and constitute a fulcrum thereforand adevice of hook-form secured. to the lever in rear of the roller.

11. A rail unloading-bar consisting of a pair of levers havingjawsadapted to cooperate in gripping a. rail, one lever being fulcrumed uponthe other lever, a bracket secured to the last mentioned lever adjacentthe lower end thereof, and a roller journalled in said bracket andadapted to supnames to this specification inthe presenc port the leversand constltute a fulcrum oftwo Witnesses.

therefor whgen moving a rail and a device LQUIS P. GHICO'INE.

secured to the lever; adjacent the'bracket and ELZEAR SAUVE 5 gdapted toc0-act with the latter When cant- Witnessesg mg 51 Tall I B. W. TANNAU,

In testimony whereof We have signed our VIDOR V

